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Never meet trouble half-way. -- John Ray
I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way. -- Knute Rockne
At least Obama was half-way honest about how much he was going to spend on health care. He had it at $600 billion. And the real number... is $1.2 trillion. -- Judd Gregg
For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism. -- Benjamin Tucker
You could put this record on and not get jarred half-way through. I wanted it to be all cut from one cloth, and that was the way we took it through the whole production process. -- Jules Shear
With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine. -- Mark Haddon
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything. -- Albert Camus
At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am now, nearly half-way through, probably tied up until the year 2015 or SO. -- Sue Grafton
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries. -- H. G. Wells
I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would never be doing that again. It's just not me. I really am happy as a part-time film composer, not a full-time film composer. -- Danny Elfman
People ask me if I ever feel outside the Hollywood loop, and I never do, because both of us do a lot of theatre, so it's great for New York and it's also half-way between Europe and the west coast, so it's the best of both worlds. -- Liam Neeson
For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity. -- James Buchan
The world meets nobody half way. -- Charles Lamb
In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices. -- Horace
meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating ... -- Evelyn Underhill
Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility. -- David Baldacci
Half-way through any big project, everyone forgets what they're doing. -- J. Michael Straczynski
Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle. -- Kate Christensen
A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being. -- Otto von Bismarck
That which you fear the most will meet you half way. -- Victoria Williams
Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking. -- Carl Jung
Prevent the things you have been doing and you are half-way home. -- F. Matthias Alexander
The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half. -- Eric Maisel
It's lap 26 of 58, which unless I'm very much mistaken is half way. -- Murray Walker
Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation. -- Thomas Adams
The best way to save face is not to use the lower half. -- Lou Holtz
Either we're aware and present, or we're not. There is no half way. -- Tenzin Palmo
I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective. -- Emilio Estevez
I have a lot of ideas that I feel are half-formed, or half-way okay. -- Joel Edgerton
I had to travel half way across the world to be called an American. -- Gabriel Iglesias
I'm fourteen years old; that's almost half-way to thirty. I need my own space. -- Alex Mack
Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through -- Mohsin Hamid
Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
I still think that, in a way, I can't get past half my childhood dogmas. -- J. D. Salinger
Half of San Antonio's population is of Mexican descent; the other half just eats that way. -- Mike Greenberg
So I begged, half way into season two, for them to let me cut my hair. -- Charisma Carpenter
Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass. -- Terry Pratchett
When need something really aggressive, outrageous and not done half-way, I feel like I'm your girl. -- Brigid Brannagh
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. -- Charles Spurgeon
Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way of consciousness. -- D. H. Lawrence
The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race. -- Isabel Paterson
If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship. -- Clement Attlee
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. -- Charles Spurgeon
More than half the questions I am asked are about the politics of the way I look -- Mindy Kaling
The best way to economize time is to 'lose' half an hour each day attending Holy Mass. -- Frederic Ozanam
Fuss is half-sister to hurry, and neither of them can do anything without getting in their own way. -- Josh Billings
A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots. -- Mark Twain
I had to fight like hell to convince people I was beautiful in my own Polish half-breed way. -- Janice Dickinson
Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it. -- Amartya Sen
I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot. -- Muhammad Ali
It's never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population. -- Susan Cain
Given half an opportunity to go and play the way I'm playing at the moment, of course I would. -- Kevin Pietersen
Let's put it this way: the glass is half-empty, but the fact is, I can always get another drink -- Ville Valo
But oh, she dances in such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. -- John Suckling
They say well begun half done; but Perseverance on the way down takes you up to a great end. -- Vikrmn
A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on. -- Mark Twain
...if you live feeling like Your glass is half empty, well, It may as well be empty all the way. -- Mattie Stepanek
Glass half empty, glass half full. Well, either way you won't be going thirsty, count your blessings not your flaws... -- Lauren Aquilina
Violet, the Dowager Countess: "I mean, one way or another, everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden. -- Jessica Fellowes
I think half of our life is written out for us and things happen the way their supposed to happen. -- Rakim
We deserved to lose and it was a good result for us, considering the way we played in the second half. -- Fabio Capello
Some think of Islam as an expedient jobs program that moves the female half of the population out of the way. -- William Langewiesche
A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and get under way. -- Soren Kierkegaard
It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat. -- Diana Wynne Jones
More effective than giving away half my fortune before I die is finding a way to help people have a good-paying job. -- William E. Conway, Jr.
When you got a dream, you don't just climb half way up the ladder, you climb all the way to the top -- Cher Lloyd
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way. -- Ben Jonson
My brain begins to work stuff out, but then kinda half way through, it starts wandering off and it's like ahh, unicorns. -- Dougie Poynter
I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between. -- Ayn Rand
Positive social awareness among the South African educated half-caste is zero. Teaching is a mechanical job. The best way of earning a living. -- Peter Abrahams
If I could have my way I would place the Deity on half-pay as the Government of this Country did the subaltern officers. -- George Holyoake
There is always laughter out of the speeding vehicles for the man who is still, half-way though he be in a better direction. -- R. S. Thomas
It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life. -- George Orwell
In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it. -- Ira Glass
I'm bored way too easily. I'm staring at screens half the day. I need to be overstimulated. And how will that express itself artistically? -- Bo Burnham
Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say. -- Karl Shapiro
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Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell. -- William Penn
It was an old, old, old, old lady, And a boy who was half-past three; And the way they played together Was beautiful to see. -- Henry Cuyler Bunner
If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way. -- Homer
Do you know what happens when you slice a golf ball in half? Someone gets mad at you. I found this out the hard way. -- Jack Handey
I play around with my Japanese Garden. Since Im half way to 70 today I need to start pruning trees and sharpening plants like an old fart. -- Jason Bateman
When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray. -- Dante Alighieri
When it comes to mountains there are two kinds of people; those who walk half way up & quit & those who conquer it which one are you? -- Ricardo Viana Vargas
I trudged around on the muddy river bottom for half an hour, patiently waiting to drown, before giving up and slogging my way back to shore. -- MaryJanice Davidson
When you walk into a movie theater, you don't walk out half-way through, and then come back the next day to watch the rest of it. -- J. Michael Straczynski
If you're going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you're going to half-ass it, why bother? -- Ashly Lorenzana
It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound. -- George Eliot
It seems the only way to write a half decent book is to worry oneself sick on an hourly basis that one is producing a complete disaster. -- Alain de Botton
Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer. -- A. E. Housman
I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas. -- Sophia Myles
The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world. -- Anthony Trollope
Custer is said to have boasted that he could ride through the entire Sioux Nation with his Seventh Cavalry, and he was half right. He got half-way through. -- Vine Deloria Jr.
When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking about the ending. -- Anita Desai
We've never done a coordinated music effort. Everything else we've done has been around a holiday - Halloween, Mardi Gras, half way to Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day. -- Craig Johnson
Probably more than half of the people who go into psychology do so because they need help. I think it's their way of feeling that they have control. -- Laura Schlessinger
But I need to wake up somehow. Or maybe not. Maybe it's best to get through the day half-asleep. Maybe that's the only way to get through today. -- Jay Asher
Since half of all trees cut go to making paper, the only meaningful way to address destruction of our forest is to change the way paper is made. -- Woody Harrelson
People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive. -- Jeanette Winterson
It occurred to me that a lot of beauty has to do with believing it yourself. That half of what we see is just the way it is presented. -- Nora Raleigh Baskin
Go your own way. Question everything. Accept nothing. Accept no dogma, no can't. There are too many people walking around thinking they're sacred cows, and they're only half right -- Rosie DiManno
Hail, gentle Dawn! mild blushing goddess, hail!Rejoic'd I see thy purple mantle spreadO'er half the skies, gems pave thy radiant way,And orient pearls from ev'ry shrub depend. -- William Somervile
The [first] argument asserts the non-existence of notion on the ground that that which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal. -- Zeno of Elea
I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over. -- Bobby Darin
As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way. -- Ioan Gruffudd
It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject. -- Chaim Potok
The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor. -- Clarence Day
Face the fact that there's only one sure-fire way to erase credit card debt. By picking up a big, shiny pair of scissors and cutting your wife in half. -- Bill Maher
A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be our audience, soothe our fears. -- Susan Sontag
Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet. -- Henry David Thoreau
There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves. -- Meister Eckhart
I look at life like a big book and sometimes you get half way through it and go 'Even though I've been enjoying it, I've had enough. Give us another book -- Karl Pilkington
As an educator, I think educators should meet the people wherever they are. Don't even ask them to come half-way. Find them where they are, and sit on a couch with them. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
The federal government... knows how to put a missile in someone's room half way around the world with technology. Why don't we use some of that technology to save some lives here in America? -- Michael Nutter
In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie. -- Jeanette Winterson
I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off. -- Albert J. Nock

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